The discovery and excavation of the ancient city of Dura-Europos, located in present-day Syria, provided the world with the earliest extant example of Jewish narrative art and some of the earliest Christian art dating to ...

Approximately 19.5 million people watched the NCAA Men’s Basketball Division I National Championship in 2008. Beyond the financial gains through ticket and merchandise sales, what type of impact, if any, does this widely ...

In his book Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer distinguishes between the just causes for going to war -ius ad bellum- and the just conduct of war itself -ius in bello. In order to articulate the system of permissions and ...

Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, JIA, is a chronic disease that impacts many children worldwide. JIA is marked by joint pain and inflammation, and includes several categories of disease depending on the patient’s symptoms. ...

Chagas’ disease is caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. As determined by the World Health Organization, effective therapeutic medications are needed for the treatment of Chagas’ disease. Cruzain, a powerful ...

A major goal in the study of knot theory is to discover more practical and universal
methods that determine knot equivalence. In this paper, we will explore two methods
of doing so through the use of rational tangles and ...

The purpose of this project was to find out what knowledge college students have regarding myths concerning organically grown products. Since young adults are often consumers of organic products this study assesses a small ...

Jean-Baptiste Isabey was one of the most successful French artists of the nineteenth century, yet his name is unfamiliar today. His popularity survived eight different regimes, from Louis XVI to Napoléon III. Known as the ...

Some inconsistency is found in past literature on backward priming effects on the basis of proficiency in an L2. Simultaneous bilinguals generally display strong backward priming effects, but sequential bilinguals may ...

This paper serves as an analysis of the impact of hunting and fishing tourism operations—referred to collectively as consumptive wildlife tourism—in Latin America. Foreign tourism plays an important role in many Latin ...

The purpose of this thesis is to introduce the reader to Latin inscriptions found in the San Antonio Museum of Art. These inscriptions are epitaphs produced during the time of Roman Empire, and studying these inscriptions ...

China’s twelfth five-year plan calls for 2.15 million kilometers of rural roads to be built and repaired through 2015, creating an unprecedented demand for a long-lasting and cost-effective construction solution. Currently, ...

U.S. detention policy is an extremely complex and controversial topic. The policy was developed through dialogue between the judicial and legislative branches. As such, the policy was developed piecemeal over time and is ...

What can modern philosophers of time learn from the fictional works of C.S. Lewis? In this thesis I demonstrate that Lewis’s conception of time as exemplified throughout his works, but particularly in the Chronicles of ...

Matrices such as ice cores and tree rings have been analyzed for chemical profiles that yield telling data on environmental changes, climate change, and contaminants [1, 2]. Much like these layered matrices, earplugs of ...

Molière’s The Learned Ladies is a comedy written and translated in verse, satirizing academic pretension and education. Baylor University Theatre’s production set The Learned Ladies in the 1950’s in the personal library ...

As the republic of the United States was forming, the early Americans crafted a narrative in order to create a distinctly American identity. One way that early white American authors achieved this was through Othering ...

When compared to other mammals, bipedal humans are unique in their capacity for endurance walking and running. Recent discoveries in the fossil record provide solid evidence for our transformation from tree dwellers to ...

The “Long Tail,” is a market distribution wherein obscure products sell in large aggregate amounts, allowing them to compete comparatively well with the few popular products in the same market that sell well individually. ...

Due to the rise in the use of the Spanish language, a cultural and language barrier has developed within the health care system potentially affecting the care provided to Spanish speaking patients. This condition provides ...